• Submissions begin December 1, 2023. Complete a Playwriting Intent to Enter form by January 31, 2024.
• The deadline for submissions is midnight, March 31, 2024.
• You must submit the following on the registration form:
  • • Your name, mailing address, email, phone number, and a photo of yourself.
    • A PDF of your original play as follows:
      Submissions should be saved as a pdf with the format.  Remember to complete an “Original Works” form.
      Please follow these standard formatting rules:
    • Act and Scene Headings are Centered.
    • Character’s Names are Centered and Capitalized.
    • Stage Directions are Indented in one tab and Italicized.
    • Character’s Names in Stage Directions are Capitalized.
    • Parenthetical Stage Directions are used for Small Actions.
• Complete an ‘Original Works’ form.
• Check one of the following for your submission: ‘Middle Years Play’ or ‘High School Play or “both Middle Years and High School Play.’
• Your parent/guardian (if 18 and under) must complete a Student Membership and Participant Application. 
• All participants must complete the applicable SDA membership application. 

Please Note

• Competitors must live or study in the Province of Saskatchewan, with the inclusion of Lloydminster, Alberta.
• Entries will be adjudicated and awards presented as determined by the adjudicator. The adjudicator’s decision is final.
• Selected plays will be available to members through the SDA Mary Ellen Burgess Library.
• If you have selected the ‘Dramaturgy’ option on your registration form, you will be contacted when this becomes available.